The ongoing decline in religious practice will deepen our coming demographic crisis because it will almost certainly mean that fewer…
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‘The Quiet Revival’, a major new report from the Bible Society in the UK has found something surprising: a significant upsurge in church attendance, especially among young people, challenging previous assumptions about Christianity’s long-term decline in that country. Based on...
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Fertility rates are plunging around the world and have dropped in many cases to less than the replacement level of 2.1 children per couple. The finger of blame (so to speak) has been pointed in many directions, not least the...
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A new paper from the Anscombe Bioethics Centre in Oxford warns against using Australia as a model for UK laws on assisted suicide and euthanasia. Both the UK Parliament at Westminster and the Scottish Parliament are currently considering bills that...
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Just like in the South, the population of Northern Ireland is ageing rapidly. A recent report from the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) projects that by mid-century there will be one pensioner for every 2.5 people in the...
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If we want prosperity, one important step is supporting and rebuilding the family. This is the central argument presented by the economist Philip Pilkington in his new booklet “Family Matters: Why Our Choices Determine Our Economic Prosperity”, which is published...
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Is the huge additional money being put into daycare by the State providing value for money from a taxpayer point of view? To judge from a recent ESRI study, the answer is no. The effect of the particular means-tested daycare...
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A five judge panel of the UK Supreme Court has unanimously ruled that the terms ‘woman’ and ‘sex’ in UK law refer to a ‘biological woman’ and ‘biological sex’. This…
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On Saturday October 5th, The Iona Institute held its annual youth conference. The theme was ‘Whatever Happened to Tradition?‘, the…
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